Rock You Sinners

This film is pretty awful in most respects, not least for the role given to one actor in particular - Colin Croft.

Croft was clearly well into his 30s playing much younger. His attempt to act "hip" or "cool" made my toes curl. Just saw him in an episode of Interpol Calling (from around the same era) as a crooked co-pilot which had the same effect, when he was talking about 20-year old girls.

The film is worth watching though as it shows how hopeless middle-aged filmmakers were at trying to capture the rock n roll experience for a teen audience. Terrible exploitation nonsense. Worth a laugh on rainy afternoon.

This is among the top five musical films that have a dreadful storyline, that are poorly directed, produced and acted.

A lot of the dialogue is spoken as if being read straight from the script, a script that was derived in about 5 minutes.

Lyrics to the songs are dreadful and embarrassing.

The cast are among the most amateur you'll ever see and a slight redeeming feature is the dancing.

Think of 6th formers doing their end of term play and you have an idea what the films like.

I am surprised that none of the other reviewers have picked up on the names of various members of the Fancey family in the credits.They are all related to the infamous E J Fancey,who produced some of the worst films in British cinema history.Here he truly excels himself.This film deserves a place in the list of all time worst British films.The story can hardly be criticised as it barely exists.The acting is amateurish.Interesting to see Jackie Collins before she wisely stuck to writing books.I am no expert on the rock and roll artists of the era but there seem to be quite a few duds in the lot on show here.The best way to watch this is with your finger on the fast forward button.

So cheap the dialogue was obviously post-synced and so obscure it didn't even make it into Jenkinson & Warner's 'Celluloid Rock' (1974) or the 'NME Guide to Rock Cinema' (1981). Yet historically noteworthy as Britain's first attempt at the sort of rock'n'roll quickie that had been cleaning up on the other side of the Atlantic.

Demure young ladies with permanent waves respond ecstatically to calypso rock with a feverish gleam in their eyes which makes them look as though they're on drugs; while one of them flounces off in a huff to create a plot. Not so demure is a pre-nose job Jackie Collins before she learned to write.

Also of interest to film buffs is an appearance by Tony Crombie, who later scored a handful of films for Danzigers.

Jazz music played too quickly with the words "rock and roll" popping up at random intervals does not result in a rock and roll song.

Most of the cast were at least ten years too old, some were 20 years too old, for the parts they played which was ridiculous.

A very poor attempt to cash in on the new music that was rock and roll at the time, those who bought a ticket to see it at the time must have been most disappointed. Not one act survived beyond appearing in this film, appearing in it probably killed their music careers stone dead.